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Du Système Social Et Des Lois Qui Les Régissent; Élémens De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Traité De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Philosophie Zoologique; et al.

Du Système Social Et Des Lois Qui Les Régissent; Élémens De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Traité De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Philosophie Zoologique; et al. by LOVELACE, ADA [owned by]

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Du Système Social Et Des Lois Qui Les Régissent; Élémens De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Traité De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral; Philosophie Zoologique; et al.
Author
LOVELACE, ADA [owned by]
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The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
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np: np, 1825. Mixed editions. Three quarters calf gilt. Very Good. IMPORTANT BOOKS FROM ADA LOVELACE’S LIBRARY, INCLUDING TWO CALCULUS BOOKS AND A HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT PRESENTATION COPY TO HER: In demonstrating the breadth of Lovelace’s intellectual curiosity and revealing the connective tissue of her mind, this collection of books forms a solid intellectual core on which future academic consideration of Lovelace’s thought can build. In an era where mathematics and analytics were male-dominated professions, Ada Lovelace overcame the sexism of her time to become an innovator and a pioneer whose contributions and ideas laid the groundwork for the modern computer revolution. The only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and Lady Byron, Lovelace was committed to original thinking and creativity. As a teenager she worked closely with her tutor, the accomplished scientist Mary Somerville, who both inspired Ada to broaden her own acquaintance with the sciences and also introduced her to Charles Babbage, who nicknamed Lovelace the "Enchantress of Number." (Smith). Shortly after her marriage to William King in 1835, Lovelace declared she was a “Bride of Science” and accelerated her studies. Indeed so active was her mind and so intense her studies, that Augustus De Morgan (the famed scientist and logician who acted as Ada’s advanced-mathematics tutor), warned Lovelace’s mother that Ada was at risk of physical and psychological destruction – a warning which Lovelace herself brushed aside, instead proclaiming that “my intellect will keep me alive, and active.” (Winter, 220). Poetry and Analysis were “indissolubly” interwoven in Lovelace’s life, and this imaginative capacity decidedly set her apart from the more narrowly-focused utilitarian minds of her age. For Lovelace, mathematics constituted “the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world, and it allows us to portray the changes of mutual relationship” that unfold within creation. (Isaacson, 17). Living as she did in the intersection between science and poetry, Lovelace could both conceive and extrapolate the possibilities and applications of science, and she could effectively generate and communicate sophisticated ideas in a way that many in her field could not.  Thus Lovelace could see beauty and the future in the metal hardware of a calculating engine, whereas most others – including Babbage himself – saw only an efficient means for simplifying the immediate computational tasks of life. In 1842-43 Lovelace translated Luigi Menabrea’s article about Babbage’s Analytical Engine, the first published statement about the invention. Very significantly, Lovelace supplemented her translation with an elaborate set of “Notes” which not only contained important remarks about the machine’s programmability but also explicitly wrote out an algorithm to compute Bernoulli numbers, which many consider the first computer program. In these “Notes” Lovelace wrote that computers could be programmed to follow any symbolic notations, including musical and artistic ones, and to “weave algebraic patterns just as the Jacquard loom weaves flowers and leaves.” Lovelace also posed questions about Babbage’s Analytical Engine and considered how individuals and society could use technology as a collaborative instrument, a visionary idea that did not become reality until Alan Turing’s era. Much of Lovelace’s commentary and analysis was inspired by the texts that she studied, many of which are included in this unique collection. Lovelace is known to have read and analyzed the works of the Belgian statistician Adolphe Quételet. This copy of Du Système Social et des Lois qui les Régissent was inscribed by Quételet to Lady Lovelace and has numerous marginal lines emphasizing passages, almost certainly in Lovelace’s own hand. In addition to the Lubbe and Boucharlat mathematical books offered here, this collection of Lovelace’s personal and reference library also includes Jean-Baptiste Lamarck’s early volumes about evolution, Joseph-Philippe-François Deleuze’s writings about animal magnetism, Carlo Matteucci’s work on the electrical properties of animal tissue and published research on experimental physiology and the autonomic nervous system by Flourens and Longet, which includes the pencil inscription “Lovelace”, in what is very likely (and logically) in her own hand. These volumes demonstrate the breadth of Lovelace’s intellectual curiosity and reveal the context and connective tissue through which she made many of her discoveries. According to Lovelace, “[math] constitutes the language through which alone we can adequately express the great facts of the natural world, and it allows us to portray the changes of mutual relationship” that unfold in creation. (Isaacson, 17). The books in Lovelace’s library: Lovelace’s translation of Menabrea’s article was her only lifetime scientific published work (though see our note regarding Quetelet, below), and deeper insight into Lovelace’s mind – and the intellectual background of her “Notes” – is perhaps only to be attained through a knowledge of the books she read. No catalogue of Lovelace’s library was however made, and very few of the books she owned are known to have survived. Indeed the present offering may very well be the only remaining opportunity to acquire books from Lovelace’s personal library. The books offered here very certainly reflect the intellectuality and tendencies of Lovelace’s mind. These titles evidence her broad scientific interests -- with the mathematical, biological, and human social sciences all being exampled in the collection. In addition to a highly important copy of Adolphe Quetelet’s Du Système Social et des Lois qui les Régissent, the remaining titles include an important group of texts relating to Lovelace’s investigations into the nervous system and the brain – an academically under-explored area of Lovelace’s scientific researches – as well as a famous work on the nascent field of Evolution, and of course two books on the Calculus. Ranging from Longet’s anatomical study of the human nervous system and Flourens’ experimental researches on the nervous system – this latter work including the pencil inscription “Lovelace” in what appears to be Ada’s own hand – to Matteucci’s work on the electrical properties of animal tissue and Deleuze’s writings about animal magnetism, these biological works give concrete substance to Lovelace’s neurological investigations, an area of Lovelace’s interest that has been pointed at, but not yet formally studied. The two volumes of Lamarck’s 1850 edition of Philosophie Zoologique testify to Lovelace’s (not surprising) interest in the emerging debate about evolution; and her copy of Lubbe’s treatise on the Calculus is not only a fine representative specimen of her mathematical learning, but it is also probably a text she in fact studied under the tutelage of Mary Somerville. Lovelace’s copy of Quetelet’s 1848 Du Système Social et des Lois qui les Régissent is deserving of special attention. Not only is this book a signed presentation copy from Quetelet to “Lady Lovelace,” but it also contains a good many emphatic marginal markings, almost certainly in Lovelace’s own hand. One of Quetelet’s most important books, this work pioneered the application of statistics to social phenomena and is one of the foundational texts of modern sociological science. Quetelet was arguably the greatest statisticians of his day; and as one of England’s first and leading statisticians, Babbage both knew him and introduced Lovelace to his work. Both Babbage and Lovelace recognized that statistical calculation was an ideal application of Babbage’s mechanical engines, and we in fact see such thinking reflected in Lovelace’s 1843 published “Notes” about the Analytical Engine. Very remarkably, Lovelace’s own unique relationship to Quetelet is immortalized in a footnote she appended to her husband’s 1848 article reviewing the different mathematical theories correlating climate and crop yield, in which she explicitly advocated for the adoption of Quetelet’s statistically-based mathematical theory (Hollings, Martin, Rice). And this footnote – apparently one of only two other lifetime published scientific observations by Lovelace outside of her 1843 “Notes” – undoubtedly functioned as a basis for Quetelet presenting Lovelace a copy of his book. Lovelace’s copy of Quetelet’s text is unknown to scholarship, and deciphering the meaning and intent of her likely marginal delineations remains an Intriguing project for future scholarship. List of books, in custom Lovelace library bindings: Deleuze, Joseph-Philippe-François. Instruction Pratique Sur Le Magnétisme Animal, 1825. Lubbe, Samuel Ferdinand. Traité De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral, 1832. Boucharlat, Jean Louis. Élémens De Calcul Différentiel et De Calcul Intégral, Fifth Edition, 1838. Flourens, Marie-Jean-Pierre. Recherches Expérimentales... Du Système Nerveux..., 1842. Longet, François Achille. Anatomie et Physiologie du Système Nerveux de l’Homme et des Des Animaux Vertébrés, 2 Vol., 1842. Matteucci, Carlo. Traité Des Phénomènes Électro-Physiologiques Des Animaux, 1844. Quételet, Adolphe. Du Système Social Et Des Lois Qui Les Régissent, 1848. Lamarck, Jean-Baptiste. Philosophie Zoologique, 2 Vol., New Edition, 1850. Octavos, contemporary half calf, slightly rubbed, gilt spines, Eight titles in ten volumes, all from the library of Ada Lovelace. Seven volumes with blind-stamps of East Horsley Tower on titles and front endpapers, Four volumes with gilt initials AAL at tail of spines. AN EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND IMPORTANT SET: IT IS UNLIKELY ANY OTHER VOLUMES FROM LOVELACE'S LIBRARY WILL COME TO MARKET. References: Erik Gregersen. “Ada Lovelace: British Mathematician,” Encyclopaedia Britannica. 2021.
 Christopher Hollings, Ursula Martin and Adrian Rice. Ada Lovelace: The Making of a Computer Scientist. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 2018. Walter Isaacson. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2014.
 Nate Smith. “The Enchantress of Number,” Inside Adams. Library of Congress. https://blogs.loc.gov/. 7 October 2019.  Dorothy Stein. Ada: A Life And A Legacy. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987. Alison Winter. A Calculus of Suffering: Ada Lovelace and the Bodily Constraints on Women's Knowledge in Early Victorian England. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998.
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La Sua Terra by MASSANI, Giuseppe

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La Sua Terra
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MASSANI, Giuseppe
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Ursus Books (United States)
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1936. MASSANI, Giuseppe. La Sua Terra. [90], 6 pp., illustrated with photographs throughout. Folio, 395 x 313 mm., bound in publisher's illustrated cloth. Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1936. A fine copy of this classic fascist photobook, a hagiography of Mussolini, which is almost a direct takeoff of the books produced in communist Russia at the same time, using photography to glorify the State. The book is also a spectacular example of fascist book design with great care given to the layout and the use of different type faces. Inscribed by the author to G. Olivetti. OCLC lists only one copy, in Belgium. Grillo, Il Libro Fotografico Italiano 1931-1941. pp. 110-111.
The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages

The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages by Mark Twain

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The Prince and the Pauper: A Tale for Young People of All Ages
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Mark Twain
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
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Collectible; Very Good
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Boston: James R. Osgood, 1882. 1st. Half-Leather. Collectible; Very Good. The 1892 1st American edition (with the imprint of the Franklin Press on the coyright page). In the Publisher's Deluxe binding (half-morocco over marbled boards). Clean, solid and well-preserved. VG, with light wear at the tips and along the outer hinges. Small abrading to the author spine label and light rubbing to the rear panel. Internally, very clean, with no writing or markings of any kind. Octavo, 411 pgs., 192 illutrations accompanying the text. Housed in a custom-made chemise and box, with gilt-lettered leather spine label.
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Ueber die Operation der Blasen - Scheidenfisteln durch blutige Naht und Bemerkungen uber die Heilung der Fisteln, Spalten und Defecte .... by Simon, G - SURGERY - WOMEN

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Ueber die Operation der Blasen - Scheidenfisteln durch blutige Naht und Bemerkungen uber die Heilung der Fisteln, Spalten und Defecte ....
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Simon, G - SURGERY - WOMEN
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Rostock: Stiller Hod Buchhandlung, 1862. First Edition.. original printed wrappers.. Good copy; disbound from a larger volume; backstrip abraded.. sm. 4to. Thirteen dramatic black and white lithographic plates and text illustrations. An important surgeon who wrote this landmark book establishing the technique, and designing the instruments for this gynaecological operation. See Ricci and G-M for numerous citations.
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Masaryk's Path and Legacy. Funeral Oration at the Burial of the President-Liberator. 21 September 1937 [Signed by President Edvard Benes] by Benes, Dr. Edvard

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Masaryk's Path and Legacy. Funeral Oration at the Burial of the President-Liberator. 21 September 1937 [Signed by President Edvard Benes]
Author
Benes, Dr. Edvard
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ZH BOOKS (United States)
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Prague: Orbis, 1937. Softcover. First edition, limited to 1000 copies; 11 x 7 3/4; pp. [8], 9-34, [6]; plain white wraps, illustrated off-white jacket, partially affixed to wraps (as published) with a second tissue jacket covering it; a few small cuts to edges of tissue jacket and two small spots; tail of spine with a small bump and a short nick; deckled page edges; illustrated with portrait frontis, a drawing, and with a wood engraving after Karel Svolinsky; very good or better condition. Signed by President Edvard Benes on the half-title page. A beautiful, fine press book, it contains the text of the oration, including the sections that were omitted during the ceremony, President Benes gave at the funeral of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk (1850 - 1937). Known as "The President-Liberator" and "The Great old Man of Europe," Masaryk would be elected in 1918, after the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and re-elected three times - 1920, 1927, and 1934 - with a special provision to the Constitution, which exempted him from the two-term limit. Under his leadership, Czechoslovakia would become the strongest democracy in Central Europe. Edvard Benes (1884 - 1948) was a leader of the Czechoslovak Independence Movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the second President of Czechoslovakia from 1935 to 1938 (when he was forced to resign by the Germans) and again from 1940 to 1948. Although he was not a Communist, Benes was a skilled diplomat and, realizing that an alliance with the Soviet Union was more beneficial than an alliance with Poland, he vetoed the plans for a Polish-Czechoslovakian Confederation and signed an entente with the Soviets in 1943.
Illustrated Letter Sheet w/ Illustrations of Kearney Nebraska

Illustrated Letter Sheet w/ Illustrations of Kearney Nebraska

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Illustrated Letter Sheet w/ Illustrations of Kearney Nebraska
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Single sheet letter from F.G. Keens of Kearney, Nebraska to lawyer William Martin James of Rochester, NY. Dated January 8th, 1889. The reverse has a promotional illustration promoting the Nebraska town of Kearney.
Mushroom print from Die Pilze, enthaltend die Abbildung und Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten Pilze

Mushroom print from Die Pilze, enthaltend die Abbildung und Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten Pilze by PABST, Gustav & J.G. BACH, engraver

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Mushroom print from Die Pilze, enthaltend die Abbildung und Beschreibung der vorzüglichsten Pilze
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PABST, Gustav & J.G. BACH, engraver
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
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Gera, Germany: Griesbach, 1875. Ephemera no binding. Fine. J.G. BACH, engraver. 4to plate; 9 1/2" x 6 5/8" within the neat lines; chromolithograph of four species of mushrooms; double acid-free archival backing and mat 13 7/8" x 11" matted; fine. Fourteen species of globe or puff mushrooms are illustrated and identified on this Plate 23.
The Luck of the Bodkins

The Luck of the Bodkins by WODEHOUSE, P. G.

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The Luck of the Bodkins
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WODEHOUSE, P. G.
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
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Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1936. First American Edition. First printing. Octavo (19.5cm). Light green cloth, stamped in black on front and spine; plain endpapers; [vi],298pp. A straight copy, spine sunned, extremities rubbed, head and tail pushed, occasional light foxing: Very Good. MCILVAINE A54b.
FUEGO AL FUEGO: COCINA TROPICAL AFRODISIACA; Gilberto Smith, et al. Chef invitado: Iván Rodríguez López. La Fantástica Colección
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FUEGO AL FUEGO: COCINA TROPICAL AFRODISIACA; Gilberto Smith, et al. Chef invitado: Iván Rodríguez López. La Fantástica Colección

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FUEGO AL FUEGO: COCINA TROPICAL AFRODISIACA; Gilberto Smith, et al. Chef invitado: Iván Rodríguez López. La Fantástica Colección
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Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
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9789592094604
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La Habana: Percosi Immaginari Trading Company;Ediciones Unión, 2002. color plates, recipes, glos., bibl., ind., color fldg. pict. wrps. Gilberto Smith, famous chef from Cuba presents tropical recipes using, what popular tradition has designated as aphrodisiac food, beverages and certain herbs. Some recipies include: Pavo en salsa de guayaba, Sopa de cebolla, Aguacates del gran gusto, Huevos de pato al diablo, Rabo encendido, Brochetas de cocodrilo, Langostinos con coco y quimbombó, La Pasión de Adán, Café a la llama and others.
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PEOPLE, PLANTS & JUSTICE: THE POLITICS OF NATURE CONSERVATION by Zerner, Charles (Editor)

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PEOPLE, PLANTS & JUSTICE: THE POLITICS OF NATURE CONSERVATION
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Zerner, Charles (Editor)
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Hoffman Books (United States)
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New York: Columbis University Press. Very Good. 2000. Softcover. NY: Columbia University Press, (2000). First printing. 449 pages, softbound. A VG copy in lightly edgeworn paper wrappers. .

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